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INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

“Structured Input: Focus on Form for High School Language Instruction.” Plano School District. Spring 2007.

“Structured Input: Focus on Form for High School Language Instruction.” Richardson School District. Spring 2007.

“Second Language Grammar Instruction: Myths and Methods.”  A Workshop For ESL Instructors-in-Training at Texas Tech University.  January, 2006.

“Structured Input: Theory, Research, and Implementation.” Invited Lecture at McGraw-Hill Special Event for Dallas Area Language Instructors and Administrators. Spring, 2005

“Structured Input: Theory, Research, and Implementation.” Invited Lecture at McGraw-Hill Special Event for Fort Worth Area Language Instructors and Administrators. Spring, 2005.

Invited Fall Orientation Speaker at Northern Illinois University. Topic: Implementation of a Task-Based Approach to Introductory Spanish. August, 2004.

Invited Lecture at Northern Illinois University. Topic: Communicative Language Teaching and Assessment: An Approach for Lower-level Spanish. April, 2004.

Invited Lecture Series at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Day 1: Processability Theory; Day 2: Input Processing and Processing Instruction; Day 3: Concept Mediation and Word Association in Low-level Bilinguals. Additional activities: daily workshops and mentoring of SLA research faculty at UNAM. January, 2004.

Invited Speaker at University of Louisville. Topic: Task-based Language Instruction- A Model for Spanish. November, 2003.

Invited Lecture and Workshop at Iowa State University. Topic: SLA Theory, Research and Practice: An Informed Look at Curriculum Development for Undergraduate Spanish. August, 2003.

Invited Lecture at the University of Nevada-Reno. Topic: L2 Acquisition of the Spanish Subjunctive: An Empirical Perspective. February, 2003.

Invited Lecture at Washington University. Topic: The Roles of Input and Output Practice in the Foreign Language Classroom. St. Louis, Missouri. October, 2001.

INVITED REFEREE OF GRANTS, ARTICLES, AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Invited Referee for National Science Foundation Grant, April 2007.

Invited Referee for Language Learning, December 2005.

Invited Referee for Language Learning, November 2005.

Invited Referee for Applied Linguistics, March 2004.

Invited Referee for Southern Journal of Linguistics, October 2003.

Invited Referee for Southern Journal of Linguistics, September 2003.

Invited Referee for Georgetown University Press, August 2003.

Invited Referee for Issues in Applied Linguistics, Fall 2003.

Invited Referee for Issues in Applied Linguistics, Spring 2003.

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INVITED CHAIR OR PANELIST

A Keynote Panelist at 8th Annual McGraw-Hill World Languages Teleconference and Webcast. Topic: Testing and Assessment in the Second Language Classroom. October, 2004.

Session Chair at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah. April, 2002.

Session Chair at the Conference on Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition. Session: Think Aloud Protocols, L2 Word Retention, and Issues in Lexical Acquisition. Chicago, Illinois. February, 2002.

Member of Academic Advisory Panel for McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Project: Zinemás, An Internet-based Introductory Spanish Program. 2001-2002.

Session Chair at the XXXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Session: Second and Third Language Acquisition, L2 Acquisition of Copula Choice, and Constructing L2 Aspect. Chicago, Illinois. April, 2001.

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